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Re: I swear I will Slap the Shit out of the Next Person....

Originally Posted by rareboy

Who pronounces it Feb-yew-ary instead of Feb-Roo-Ary.

I agree entirely, but one hears much worse everyday. My current pet hate is misuse of "literally". I heard a woman speaking on the 'phone in the street recently and she said "I'm literally two seconds away". Of course, the person she was speaking to was nowhere to be seen. I was tempted to stop and explain, but she sounded like she was hard of thinking.

Re: I swear I will Slap the Shit out of the Next Person....

I'll skip the obvious ones, like "ax" and "nukeyouler" and I'll partially agree with Rareboy: I prefer February. I can tolerate Febiouary. I despise Febba Wary, which I have heard uttered by more than one person.

But "foyer" rhymes with "gay."

When people say "foyerrrrrr," I want to slap the shit into them via the same orifice that has delivered this abomination of a word.

Also, I've noticed old eastern-Canadians tend to say Tuesdee, Thursdee, etc. instead of Tuesday, Thursday. That has to stop too, but at least mortality is improving the language naturally. (again, the lesson is: just rhyme things with "gay." )

Re: I swear I will Slap the Shit out of the Next Person....

Hm. I guess the asked/axed thing just stands out to me more when Americans use it (usually because their accents are more comparable to Canadian ones).

Most of my exposure to Americans and Brits = films and television so I can't say I have a lot of first hand experience with it.

Oh. I thought this was just limited to people with a Cockney accent. I think it's kind of cute. lol

It's not universally British, but I don't know the exact boundaries.

Also if the Brits are going to screw up "ask" it comes out as "ox." Can I ox you a question?

Also also, you mentioned ESL before - for some reason I can hear through people's accents when they have learned to speak English later in life, and I don't find accents to be distracting even when their language learning is not perfect or you have to work to understand a word that is technically mispronounced in a way that affects comprehension.

It's more like hearing words that are pronounced with a local accent, a different accent, or just wrong. The first two categories are great; the last one...

Re: I swear I will Slap the Shit out of the Next Person....

Worse than the overuse "really" and "seriously" - the misuse of "literally". "I literally died when he came in the door."

Online, my biggest pet peeve is the use of "lol" to mean "the end". No matter what's being discussed. "So my aunt is in the hospital and the doctors really don't know what's wrong. Hoping for the best lol"